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<p>The jQuery UI effects core extends the animate function to be
able to animate colors as well. It's heavily used by the class
transition feature and it's able to color animate the following
properties:</p>
<ul>
	<li><b>backgroundColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderBottomColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderLeftColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderRightColor</b></li>
	<li><b>borderTopColor</b></li>
	<li><b>color</b></li>
	<li><b>outlineColor</b></li>
</ul>
<p>with one of the following combinations:</p>
<ul>
	<li><b>hex (#FF0000)</b></li>
	<li><b>rgb (rgb(255,255,255))</b></li>
	<li><b>names ("black")</b></li>
</ul>
<p><br />
</p>
<p>
<div class="options list">
<table class="options examples" cellspacing="0">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Name</th>
			<th>Type</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
</table>
<b class="options">Example:</b>
<table class="options examples" cellspacing="0">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th>Name</th>
			<th>Type</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<div class="example">
		<ul>
			<li><a href="#demo"><span>Demo</span></a></li>
			<li><a href="#source"><span>View Source</span></a></li>
		</ul>
		<div id="demo" class="tabs-container" rel="125">A simple color
		animation.<br />
		</p>
		<pre>$(&quot;.block&quot;).<a
			href="http://docs.jquery.com/Events/toggle" title="Events/toggle">toggle</a>(function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
			title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;black&quot; }, 1000);
},function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
			title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;#68BFEF&quot; }, 500);
});

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		</div>
		<div id="source" class="tabs-container">
		</p>
		<pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"
			class="external free" title="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd</a>"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
  &lt;script src="<a href="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"
			class="external free" title="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js">http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js</a>"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;script src=&quot;http://ui.jquery.com/latest/ui/effects.core.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

  &lt;script&gt;
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $(&quot;.block&quot;).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Events/toggle"
			title="Events/toggle">toggle</a>(function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
			title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;black&quot; }, 1000);
},function() {
    $(this).<a href="http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/animate"
			title="Effects/animate">animate</a>({ backgroundColor: &quot;#68BFEF&quot; }, 500);
});

  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;style&gt;
  .block { 
    color: white;
    background-color: #68BFEF;
    width: 150px; 
    height: 70px;
    margin: 10px; 
  }
  &lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div class=&quot;block&quot;&gt; Click me&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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